Reply to More MOCO Upzoning - Starting in Silver Spring

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "More MOCO Upzoning - Starting in Silver Spring"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prices go up for detached SFHs in areas of increasing density because that is what most prefer.

NIMBYs love pretending to be daft just to question the obvious.[/quote]

How are the YIMBYs going to address the shortage of detached SFHs in areas of increasing density?[/quote]

By suggesting that such can be found farther out, and that [b]we should be encouraging job creation to go along with well-managed housing development [/b]in those locations to acieve similar aims to those [i]publicly espoused[/i] by YIMBYs.[/quote]

It is false that MoCo’s YIMBYs espouse anything about job creation. The Thrive draft that planning sent to the Council did not include a chapter on jobs. The Council said that wasn’t right and sent it back. Planning had to hire consultants to write that chapter because they lacked the expertise to do it themselves. And by well-managed housing development in those locations, you either mean banning it or taxing it to death. [/quote]

My misnomer back a couple of posts caused confusion, here.  The post at the beginning of the quotes, here, should have said, "[i]YIMBYs[i] [not NIMBYS]  love pretending to be daft just to question the obvious."  Change the next post to NIMBYs instead of YIMBYs, as a presumed question in retort.

The third post (again mine) then reads correctly, and suggests that a NIMBY response would achieve similar ends to those YIMBYs [i]say[/i] they want (but we know that that for which they really are aiming is the infill development, itself, just touting the social ends as a justification for that).

Interesting point about the origins of the job creation bit in the plan.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics